There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.
Pietro Aretino
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Oscar Wilde
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
Shana Alexander
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Anne Sullivan
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.
John Green
This is my simple religion. No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your own heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.
Dalai Lama XIV
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Allan Bloom
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset